#evolution
# education
I'm not going to the Creation Museum for pretty much the same reason I wash my hands after using a public restroom.
# science
Creationists think evolution is either nonexistent or some sort of deity-guided progression towards perfection. The reality is much more of a mixed bag...
# evolution
Natural selection is starting to kick in to save the Y chromosome from itself.
# science
According to some researchers, "hey baby, that's a nice... uh... belly button you got there?" is the hot new pickup line we should be considering.
# oddities
Creationists always promise a grand proof for why evolution is a folly of the unfaithful. This time they're timing it to a group of atheists visiting their Creation Museum.
# education
Texas' new potential chair of the Board of Education will make you long for the good old days of anti-evolution dentist Don McLeroy.
# evolution
Take a peek into the bizarro world of the Discovery Institute, where random cranks are scientific icons in waiting and evolution is about to be rejected by Big Science.
# oddities
Van Helsing might have been a legendary monster slayer who defeated many a werewolf, but he had nothing on... Darwin?
# evolution
Weird Things talks to the Texas Freedom Network about keeping science in science class despite the state's best efforts to gut it.
# politics
Texas finally had enough of Don McLeroy's leadership of the school board. But he's still on the board and still a threat to reality-based education.
# science
It's not just the right that doesn't understand evolution or how it works. The fringe left also has some very bizarre ideas about it.
# education
Since the Texas School Board is really into injecting controversies into education, here's one they should consider.
# education
Yet more shenanigans from the Texas School Board of Education, this time about the age of the universe and the basics of cosmology.
# evolution
Everyone's favorite creationist punchline Ray Comfort decides to weigh in on swine flu. It went about as well as you'd expect.
# science
The famed naturalist and science communicator is back with a new documentary about evolution that avoids similar efforts' typical mistakes.
